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RROCK and SheRock June 2008 We left Kansas June 6th for a week long vacation to visit family in Missouri before competition weekend at Hannibal Rocks. We were quite the show with our “Redneck Toter” pulling a trailer, 2 big dogs, a 3-month-old baby and luggage for 8 days. A 7-hour trip took us about 10 but we made it safe and sound. We had our baby Ella baptized on Sunday and got to see tons of family and friends in the process. Travis organized a cruise in at Hooters on Wednesday night. With the help of Axle Boy out of St. Peters, MO we had about 15 rigs show up. There were lots of people checking out our rigs and asking questions about the sport of rock crawling. RROCK and SheRock fell on Father’s Day weekend so most people turned us down on the invite to attend the event but took the information and hope to come out and watch in the future. We rolled into Hannibal Rocks with all 3 rigs on Friday night. The weather held and we had a great night for camping. RROCK #2 was another great event put on by Hannibal Rocks. With some tough courses Team RockWild finished in 4th place; although we would have preferred a 1st place finish we had some great runs. The teams in ModStock are amazing; just a few cones puts you from 1st to 4th in quite a hurry. Congrats to the Kyles’ on a 1st place win. After a hot day of competition a dip in “Tom’s Lagoon” seemed like a great idea. Many of the kids both big and small went for a swim in the water that collected from all the rain in the quarry. We saw some baby raccoons but luckily their mother was nowhere in sight. We hit the sack early in preparation for SheRock on Sunday. There were 8 girls in all; 2 from team RockWild. Sara and Leah had a great time and finished in 2nd and 4th for the day. As a team we raised $770 for Susan G. Komen for a total of $5200 for the day. Sara competed in 2006 but couldn’t compete in 2007 because they were expecting a baby. She was excited to get back into it this year. This was Leah’s first competition and she did great. She got a little scared but only cried once. With the help of great spotters the girls didn’t get off camber too much. We had a wonderful weekend and can’t wait for next round. |
